Christmas season | AirMaria.com https://dev.airmaria.com Breathe Freely Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:57:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://airmaria.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/28143228/amicon-r-100x100.png Christmas season | AirMaria.com https://dev.airmaria.com 32 32 Video – “Christmas Eve” – Music Video – Variety 305 https://dev.airmaria.com/2018/11/23/video-christmas-eve-music-video-variety-305/ Fri, 23 Nov 2018 09:14:04 +0000 http://dev.airmaria.com/2018/11/23/video-christmas-eve-music-video-variety-305/ Ave Maria! “I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of...

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Ave Maria!

“I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely” – Charles Dickens

Lyrics: (Available on itunes)

It’s that time of the year again, to kindle hearts anew
With the fire of the love of God, and sing Merry Christmas you!
Like snowflakes pure and oh so white, coming down from up above
The Lord descends with great delight, to show us his gentle love.

Refrain:

What sentiments as we embrace, Having come from near and far!
Mary’s super lovely face, illumined by a star!

To decorate the tree tonight, and place my gifts below
The way I feel toward Christmas Eve, Please stay and never go!
With family and with loving friends, one last minute at the store,
On coming home from Midnight Mass, The homeless we won’t ignore. (Refrain)

How’s this evening possible? At once so cold and warm
A night when frost and icicle, Begin to hang and form.
Oh my God, what joy to see, your face ne’er seen before
I cancel and forgive with glee, all debts my heart has stored.

(Interlude)

In city streets and country sides, all throughout the earth
They stop to raise their voice and sing, we celebrate His birth!
My soul was filled with so much joy, Oh, when I heard them say:
That Jesus Christ is born for us, our Peace and Love today!

(Refrain)

Words and Music: Brandon Bry Cortes (Br. Gabriel)
Piano arrangement: Anita Park

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]]> 68258 A Little Child https://dev.airmaria.com/2019/12/28/a-little-child/ Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:50:45 +0000 http://dev.airmaria.com/?p=76688 At the heart of the mystery is the paradox that the glorious God decided to manifest Himself in the helplessness of a Child who is overlooked by adult society and comes into the...

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]]> At the heart of the mystery is the paradox that the glorious God decided to manifest Himself in the helplessness of a Child who is overlooked by adult society and comes into the world in a stable. The powerlessness of a child has become the proper expression of God all sub-during power, for the only force He employs is the silent force of truth and love.

It was, then, in the defenseless weakness of a Child that God wanted us to have our first encounter with saving mercy. And, in fact, how comforting it is, amid all the self assertiveness of this world’s powers, to see the peaceful tranquility of God and us to experience the security emanating from a power that in the end will be stronger than any other force and will outlast all the loud triumphal cries of the world.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

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